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Nick Strayer

I have made visualizations viewed by hundreds of thousands of people, sped up query times for 25 terabytes of data by an average of 4,800 times, and built packages for R that let you do magic.

Currently searching for a data science position that allows me to build tools using visualization and machine learning to help people explore and understand their data.

Education

PhD. Candidate, Biostatistics

Vanderbilt University

Nashville, TN

2020 - 2015

Working on Bayesian network models & interactive visualization platforms
University Graduate Fellow

B.S., Mathematics, Statistics (minor C.S.)

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

2015 - 2011

Thesis: An agent based model of Diel Vertical Migration patterns of Mysis diluviana

Selected Positions

Graduate Research Assistant

TBILab (Yaomin Xu’s Lab)

Vanderbilt University

2020 - 2015

Primarily working with large EHR and Biobank datasets.
Developing network-based methods to investigate and visualize clinically relevant patterns in data.

Data Science Researcher

Data Science Lab

Johns Hopkins University

2018 - 2017

Building R Shiny applications in the contexts of wearables and statistics education.
Work primarily done in R Shiny and Javascript (node and d3js).

Data Journalist - Graphics Department

New York Times

New York, New York

2016

Reporter with the graphics desk covering topics in science, politics, and sport.
Work primarily done in R, Javascript, and Adobe Illustrator.

Selected Writing

Using AWK and R to Parse 25tb

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2019

Story of parsing large amounts of genomics data.
Provided advice for dealing with data much larger than disk.
Reached top of HackerNews.

The Traveling Metallurgist

LiveFreeOrDichotomize.com

N/A

2017

Pure javascript implementation of traveling salesman solution using simulated annealing.
Allows reader to customize the number and location of cities to attempt to trick the algorithm.

The Great Student Migration

The New York Times

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